It is perhaps not surprising that Microsoft's retail users are slow to migrate from the familiar (PCs running Windows 7 and XP) to the unfamiliar (PCs running the radically different Metro interface, and a new product category in Surface).
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For instance, when a product's aluminum surface is shrunk or bent, the amount of on-order aluminum sheet metal changes instantly.
The Wall Street Journal reported that sales of IdeaPaint, a paint product that turns a wall surface into a whiteboard, have doubled since 2008.
Two pounds is still lighter than the Acer Iconia W700, which weighs 2.09 pounds, so for a product in this class, the Surface Pro might even pass for compact.
Like the surface of every recent Apple product, Jobs life had a spartan elegance to it.
Social innovation brings to the surface thousands of small but important product improvements as well as disruptive innovations that can bring meaningful change the business or an entire industry.
Since the initial product viewing, almost all professional reviewers have said the Surface is neat, but not fantastically so.
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Robot safety is likely to surface in the civil courts as a matter of product liability.
She will be responsible for all product development for Windows and Windows Live, in addition to Surface.
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The sand is very probably just the product of weathered basalt, the ubiquitous volcanic rock on Mars' surface.
In the past a product's shape alterations would be hammered out by designers in a surface-modeling program, a tool that allows for easy curve design and concept change.
On Surface RT, Detwiler contends that a lack of distribution is killing the product.
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The reviews for Surface have been very positive, but it remains how MSFT will support the product.
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While the iNotebook is definitely a niche product, it's fun to use and more satisfying than writing on a glass tablet surface using a stylus.
It is extremely rare on earth as it is created during very active nuclear reactions, most commonly found on the surface of the sun, but here can only be found as a by-product of the maintenance of nuclear weapons.
Surface tablet, which goes on sale Friday, as "a fairly compromised, confusing product" that aims to do too much.
It is easily the most capable surface combatant ever conceived, but when the Navy saw the price-tag for the finished product it decided to buy only three rather than the 32 planned, meaning it spent billions of dollars to get to a point where it could build a mere handful of vessels.
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Windows 8 and Surface together represent a prodigious bet to round out an eco-branding ploy which hits all major product categories with a consistent look and feel.
ENGADGET: Editorial: Microsoft is singing the right tune with some wrong notes
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